Hagley Learning Centre

Another outing for our First Steps programme to share with you!
In Term Two we visited at the Art Gallery and we saw the fantastic “Made in the Pacific” artwork exhibition featuring tapa cloth making, tools and tapa cloth artwork from many Pacific Island nations. Back at HLC we drew our own tapa cloth designs ready for painting. These will be displayed in our classroom as a class project and presentation of tapa designs. Many thanks to Allison and David from Mainland Chroma in Selwyn Street Addington for their donation of Resene tester pots and paint brushes.

Anita & China from the Developing Literacy class are working with Carol. At the end of a hardworking morning, they are reinforcing their work with colour coded mixed sentences.

In Term Two in our First Steps class, we continue to cook with both groups including yummy brownies, and cookies. This will continue as a theme for the remainder of the term as it builds excellent practical skills, while reinforcing the mathematical concepts of measurement, calculations, addition, subtraction and multiplication. The learners enjoy challenging themselves and working with each other to achieve their goals for the lesson. Thanks to Jo for her amazing culinary skills!

Our First Steps classes visited the Pop-up Museum to experience the dinosaur display and other wonders of our world. This venue gave our learners an insight into the trials and tribulations of an expeditions to the South Pole, the lives of dinosaurs and their extinction, various animals that roam our landscape, the history of Fred and Mertle’s paua house at Bluff, and Ivan Mauger’s amazing gold speedway motor bike.

When you want to know how good something is, ask the people who use it! So I went along to our Rowley class today - based at Rowley Community Centre - and spoke with Ann. Here's what she said "Dirk is a good teacher. He makes you think! I like to learn to read - reading is really hard but I'm doing my best." And that's all anyone can do, isn't it?
If you'd like to join our class at Rowley - get in touch today. We have a place for you to continue your learning in a relaxed and friendly space.

Today our Developing Literacy class learned about Anzac Day. This was a particularly poignant topic as most of the students come from war torn countries. At the end of the lesson they made pretty red paper poppies.

Is it time you went back to study to improve your reading, spelling or maths?
We have space available right now, in our Christchurch based, Workplace Communications programme. This is for adults (NZ residents/citizens) who are in employment (paying tax!) and is completely FREE!
Please get in touch if you know someone who'd like to work one-to-one with a tutor - to improve their literacy, numeracy or English language.

Depending on how our brains are wired, we think, process information and communicate in different ways. Build your knowledge of the way other people learn and interact on the neurodiversity week website - It has some great resources you might find helpful. Find them here:

Resources | Neurodiversity Celebration Week Neurodiversity Resources for All